The teams battled in events such as Pictionary, Musical Jeopardy, Best Costume, and Quiz Kids. Olympiad fosters teamwork, silliness, leadership, friendly competition, and cross-grade level friendship among Ellis students. Olympiad is a beloved tradition in the Ellis community. Middle School girls look forward to becoming team captains in 8th grade and Upper School girls recall it as a highlight of their time at Ellis.

This year's teams were Rugrats, Wonderful Women of Oz, Annie, Super Heroes, Dr. Seuss, Cartoon Network, Movie Snacks, We are the World: Countries, Movie Villains, Hippies, Olympics, Care Bears, Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs, and Stereotypes.

Winners by event were:

• Cartoon Network for Team Up!, a variety of team challenges such as tossing balls into a bucket, finding your shoes in a mixed up pile and getting them on and tied.
• Movie Villains for Fore!, where teams designed a tower out of newspaper and limited amount of tape to hold a golf ball for the longest time.
• Movie Snacks for Olympic Challenge, which included team jump rope, buddy walk, and dodgeball
• Olympics for Boat Float, for the greatest number of pennies held in a foil boat
• Super Heroes for Pictionary
• Hippies for Musical Jeopardy
• Cartoon Network for Balderdash, where teams invent and identify correct word definitions
• Movie Snacks for Best Costume
• Wonderful Women of Oz for Best Cheer
• Hippies for Best Banner
• Snow White for Quiz Kids, a junior trivia game
• Olympics won the Gold Medal for best Overall Olympiad Score. Snow White won Silver and Movie Snacks won Bronze.

Congratulations to all of our Middle School Olympiad competitors and to the Ellis Middle School Faculty, especially Olympiad organizer Andrea Christian-Michaels, for presenting the event.

See more Olympiad photos here: http://www.theellisschool.org/page/Home?#photo/274464